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by David M Willis on January 24, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Choosing My Religion
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce, monkey master

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  1. Darth Shadow
    Darth Shadow
    January 24, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Because it’s a rare collector’s edition. DUH.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 24, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

      You beat me to it.

    • Dean
      Dean
      January 24, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

      But it’s no longer mint in box!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 24, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

        If you find a collectable in mint condition in a box, chances are, that person believes that it will be worth a lot of money one day.

        The problem is that a lot of other people also have the same thing in mint condition, therefore it most likely will not be worth so much even in the future.

        • Tan
          Tan
          January 24, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

          You’re just saying that to make us all open our mint-in-box toys so yours become more valuable!

          I’m onto you!

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 24, 2012 at 2:23 am | #

            Collector Items that were sold for a shitload of money, did that because no one though of them as collectable items at the time.

            Take for example, comic-books from the 80s-90s, many of them were sold on the basis that they were going to be valuable collectables one day, thus almost every comic-book nerd wasted lots of money on multiple copies.

            In many of those cases, those comics are worth less than the price they were bought for.

            The comics I got back in the 90s are far from mint as I read them likel they were meant to be used, but even if they were in mint quality, I doubt I could get more than $50 for the entire collection.

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          January 24, 2012 at 1:52 am | #

          Yes, that’s right. And such things are produced in such quantities nowadays and so many people are squirreling them away thinking they will fund their child’s college education with the profit, that they will be worth little more than their original retail price in 15-20 years.

          If I buy action figures, I open the package and pose them on the monitor or dresser, so those of you who still have that same figure minit-in-box have just gained a paper profit of one millionth of a cent (US$).

          • Fluffy776
            Fluffy776
            January 24, 2012 at 11:10 pm | #

            I use to never open any toys (short of Lego) because “it might be
            worth something some day”. At some point(still quite young, but I don’t remember when) I realized that I was spending money at the hope it would give me a decent ROI. And that a Gundam or Hot-Wheel was way cooler posing on a desk than it was stuck in a box buried in a closet.

        • ironballs16
          ironballs16
          October 16, 2013 at 11:06 am | #

          To use an example from Calvin & Hobbes regarding comic-book collecting:
          “We’re all banking on the other guy’s mom throwing his stuff out”

    • BrokenEye, True False Prophet
      BrokenEye, True False Prophet
      September 18, 2015 at 6:34 pm | #

      I’m sure Walky knows better than to throw a rare collector’s edition toy at someone’s head. It might get hurt.

  2. Den
    Den
    January 24, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    ‘Course he’s invisible, he can do anything 8D

    I really wanted to say that :3

  3. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    January 24, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Without her glasses Dorothy kinda looks like Finn from Adventure Time without his bear hat.

    • addude
      addude
      January 24, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      I could see that.

    • Joraiem
      Joraiem
      January 24, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

      I’m sorry, but the only way I could imagine Finn without his hat is with the CRAZY FREAKING HAIR.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        January 24, 2012 at 1:13 pm | #

        You rang?

        http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FVyqhEe1kRY/Tnlw8ny37DI/AAAAAAAAAQE/T9LRLlXYpxI/s1600/AdventureTime_FinnsHair.png

    • Fluffy776
      Fluffy776
      January 24, 2012 at 11:11 pm | #

      I think you mean Fiona not Finn 😛
      (Google if you haven’t seen the episode).
      But she does have a very Adventure Time look to her.
      She might be my favorite character now.

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        January 25, 2012 at 6:35 pm | #

        Nope I mean Finn from the episode where Susan Strong comes back to take him and Jake underground to fight the glub glubs. There’s a part where she almost drowns him and he takes off his hat. =)

  4. Corlanthis
    Corlanthis
    January 24, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    D’AWWWWWWWW! :D!

  5. Tristan J
    Tristan J
    January 24, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    So much for religious discourse!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 24, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

      or even intercourse…

      • Fauxlosopher
        Fauxlosopher
        January 24, 2012 at 12:54 am | #

        Please. Joyce doesn’t want to know ANYONE in a biblical sense right now.

        • Tristan J
          Tristan J
          January 24, 2012 at 12:59 am | #

          Well, she does, but she represses it. Or suppresses it? I never remember which is which.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 24, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

            IIRC repress means you try to forget something while suppress means you try to hide something from others.

            • ryan
              ryan
              January 24, 2012 at 8:45 am | #

              so, both then?

        • Arkadi
          Arkadi
          January 24, 2012 at 4:50 pm | #

          She wants to know Sierra. Badly.

  6. Bunk
    Bunk
    January 24, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Looks like Dorothy’s got some S’plaining to do.

  7. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    January 24, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    And here we see the deficiencies of Joyce’s homeschooling.

    • Joraiem
      Joraiem
      January 24, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

      Man, that is a good question, come on. If we didn’t know already, wouldn’t you want Dorothy to tell her?

      • mechaqua
        mechaqua
        January 24, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

        It would probably be more well known if actually had managed to beat Ratatouille

        • mechaqua
          mechaqua
          January 24, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

          i got confused by the avatar this post was suppose to
          be in response to Mr. Vs response post to Garth about 2 posts down

    • Eve
      Eve
      January 24, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

      Like implying to people they’re going to hell may be rude?

      • Jarnor
        Jarnor
        January 24, 2012 at 2:40 am | #

        Ruder to let them go there if you believe in it and not care enough to do a thing about it.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          January 24, 2012 at 10:43 am | #

          Highly debatable, once you know that they’re aware of the options and would prefer to go to hell than do whatever you’re offering. It’s rude to disregard other people’s choices too.

        • Vincent
          Vincent
          January 24, 2012 at 12:03 pm | #

          So I should start informing my local branch of Jehova’s Witness that I think they’re going to hell next time they visit? Got it.

          • fhqwhgads
            fhqwhgads
            January 24, 2012 at 10:52 pm | #

            DOOO EEEEEEEET

  8. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    January 24, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    Because it’s great toy.

    And if somebody had threw me a toy into my head, I would definitely not return it.

  9. Reboot
    Reboot
    January 24, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    Does “going back to pick it up hours later” count as “keeping”?

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      January 24, 2012 at 2:59 am | #

      If it’s in her room, and it’s the same toy, it counts. It’s not like she threw it away.

  10. Garth
    Garth
    January 24, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    Persepo? Does she speak spanish? is she a spanish atheist…

    • Mr. V
      Mr. V
      January 24, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

      That is a poster for Persepolis, a great french animated movie based on an even better graphic novel.

      • Spazman
        Spazman
        January 24, 2012 at 3:19 am | #

        As in Joe’s “Debbie Does Persepolis”?

  11. Henry
    Henry
    January 24, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

    The Joyce can see into your MIND! THE JOYCE CAN SEE INTO YOUR SOUL!

    Really? The Joyce can do all that?

    Heh, no!

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      January 24, 2012 at 1:15 pm | #

      BANANABANANABANANA

  12. John
    John
    January 24, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    Dorothy looks really funny without her glasses.

  13. carl320
    carl320
    January 24, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    I like the Persepolis movie poster in the background 🙂

    • Michelle J Caboose
      Michelle J Caboose
      January 25, 2012 at 7:05 am | #

      Or is it “Debbie Does Persepolis?”

  14. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    January 24, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    Dotty’s got a cru-ush, Dotty’s got a cru-ush!

    • Michelle J Caboose
      Michelle J Caboose
      January 25, 2012 at 7:07 am | #

      And that’s why she keeps the toy Walky threw at her head.

      To hide the fact that she has a crush… On Joyce.

  15. Nexev
    Nexev
    January 24, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    The piercing of these questions is not nearly as severe as the piercing Joe gave both of them.

    With his penis.

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      January 24, 2012 at 3:12 am | #

      For a nickel.

  16. L
    L
    January 24, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    Woo!

  17. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 24, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

    OMG, Dotty is a Ditto in disguise, no wonder she doesn’t believe in God, she knows that Arceus is the creator of the universe and you can catch him if you have a Master Ball.

    • Jabberwocky
      Jabberwocky
      January 24, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

      Actually, technically speaking Arceus is only fabled to have created the Sinnoh region.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 24, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

        That includes Indiana right?

        • Valdrax
          Valdrax
          January 24, 2012 at 1:02 am | #

          Absolutely. You do NOT want to go walking in the tall grass in Indiana without an enslaved battle beast in your pocketed balls.

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            January 24, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

            I wIsh they were called that instead of pokemon

            • Khrene Cleaver
              Khrene Cleaver
              January 24, 2012 at 3:16 am | #

              Yeah me too, then people would realize Micheal Vick was only trying to play pokemon in real life!

              I know I’d be mad enough to kill my suicune if it could kill some guys bongo ass houndoom!

              • Spazman
                Spazman
                January 24, 2012 at 3:21 am | #

                Personally I view Mew as the deity of Pokemon, since all Pokem came from Mew. And Arceus is most certainly a Pokemon.

                buuuuuut I’ve obviously given this way too much thought.

                and way too much bitter fan nerdiness over people claiming Arceus was the first Pokemon.

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  January 24, 2012 at 5:57 am | #

                  And that’s how everybody helped Rex feel like less or a nerd… 😉

                • artemi
                  artemi
                  January 24, 2012 at 6:02 am | #

                  …Mew has the cells of all pokemon. That just means that Mew is some protoform that all other pokemon are decended from. Which means all pokemon have common enough DNA backgrounds that it is possible that Mew has all of their DNA, including, in theory, Dexoys, which isn’t even from this planet. Mew is likely the embodyment of the equivilent of Pokemon Stem Cells, able to become any other pokemon.

                  That doesn’t mean that something didn’t create Mew, however. That something, is Arceus.

                • Jabberwocky
                  Jabberwocky
                  January 24, 2012 at 8:13 am | #

                  Once again, Arceus is just responsible for the Sinnoh region. Mew is a much more likely candidate for a Pokemon “deity.”

                • AlmightyAtheismo
                  AlmightyAtheismo
                  January 24, 2012 at 12:53 pm | #

                  I always considered Pokemon to be a multiple deity reality. No one almighty deity, just lots of small deities all doing their own thing, spattered amongst a few larger deities.

                  Besides, everyone knows that Celebi created the universe by accident during a hilarious time travel mishap involving two teenagers trying to pass a history exam.

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  January 24, 2012 at 1:07 pm | #

                  -insert obvious air guitar solo for Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan-

                  Okay, if Pokemon is multi deity, then. Mew is the equivilent of Zeus.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  January 24, 2012 at 6:08 pm | #

                  @artemi: I heartly endorse your Mew as Arceus’s stem-cells pokemon theory.

                • Fluffy776
                  Fluffy776
                  January 24, 2012 at 11:18 pm | #

                  Wait, wouldn’t Ditto be more akin to a Stem-cell Pokemon
                  than Mew? That does make a lot of sense though, but it also
                  makes Mewtwo an argument about stem-cell tampering.
                  So rather than people using the argument of “playing God” with
                  stem-cell research I will picture said people arguing that they
                  are playing Team Rocket with such research. And political debates
                  got more fun again! (Something I was afraid was gone with the loss
                  of Cain). And, in other news, my brain is a strange place.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  January 24, 2012 at 11:43 pm | #

                  @Fluffy776: Dittos are more of the pimpdaddies of the Pokemon world as they can mate with any POkemon to make new Pokemon.

                • Michelle J Caboose
                  Michelle J Caboose
                  January 25, 2012 at 7:11 am | #

                  You’ve certainly given this a lot of thought…

                • Michelle J Caboose
                  Michelle J Caboose
                  January 25, 2012 at 7:15 am | #

                  @Tucker:
                  “Okay, if Pokemon is multi deity, then. Mew is the equivilent of Zeus.”

                  Actually, wouldn’t Mew be more like Cronus (minus the children-eating, of course)?

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        January 24, 2012 at 8:54 am | #

        Y’know, having created an entire land is probably good enough to qualify as a god at least. Real world mythological deities have earned their chops for a good bit less.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          January 24, 2012 at 10:48 am | #

          Real world gods have gotten their chops for incredibly minor things, at times -and that’s not even counting the ones that were simply born into the position. If we go by that criteria, both you and I qualify too.

  18. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 24, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

    Once upon a time, back when IT’S WALKY! was still running, I halfway expected Willis to follow up Monkey Master with the rest of his robot gestalt team: Snakedown, ShredEnd, Nagstrip and WildRhino.

    Damn you Willis.

  19. Bekah
    Bekah
    January 24, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

    “A rival appears…”

  20. mechaqua
    mechaqua
    January 24, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

    Did not know they made Persepolis posters not the most obscure film, but it is a good animated film. It centers around a Persian girl named Marjane and follows her life from being a young girl during and after the Iranian Revolution. If you want some insight into why Iran is the way that is I would recommend it. although I didn’t see the film until last year when my roommate suggested it. Another interesting note it lost to Ratatouille for the academy award for best animated film well i enjoy Pixars films and I found Ratatoullie entertaining this was the better film also Surfs up was the other animated movie nominated but that movie was shite. Also pretty sure Tintin will win this years award. Oh yeah the strips average glad there’s no religious debate yet as tends to get messy.

  21. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    January 24, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

    Dorothy: Drop it, Joyce.

    Joyce (confused): Okay [drops toy].

    Dorothy : NOTHAT’SLIMITEDEDITION! [makes spectacular diving catch of toy despite sweater vest still wrapped around her arms. Glares at Joyce].

    Joyce: [blank] … Oh, you meant stop asking about Walky. Right.

    • Fauxlosopher
      Fauxlosopher
      January 24, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

      Drop it.

      • Spazman
        Spazman
        January 24, 2012 at 3:23 am | #

        …….the hell was that?

        lol

        • Shade743
          Shade743
          January 24, 2012 at 7:16 am | #

          Seconded.

          • TheBenenator
            TheBenenator
            January 24, 2012 at 12:58 pm | #

            nth’d.

  22. Xailenrath Omniversal
    Xailenrath Omniversal
    January 24, 2012 at 12:55 am | #

    Who doesn’t love Monkey Master?
    C’MOOOONNNNN!

    • ryan
      ryan
      January 24, 2012 at 8:53 am | #

      i have a “friend” that would hate monkey master simply because it represents a non-human primate.

      the guy really is my friend, but whenever he brings up his monkey hate, i seriously call our friendship into question.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        January 24, 2012 at 10:50 am | #

        That sounds like the most entertaining berserk button ever.

      • Dragon Nataku
        Dragon Nataku
        January 24, 2012 at 11:07 am | #

        I would really love to hear his reaction to the Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie…

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 24, 2012 at 8:04 pm | #

        …what.

        That’s…That’s like the DUMBEST thing to hate ever.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      January 24, 2012 at 5:30 pm | #

      No…must resist…

      Oh, like the guy in the 300 thousand dollar suit is going to like a toy monkey! C’MON!

  23. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    January 24, 2012 at 1:04 am | #

    Because she plans to turn it into a voodoo doll.

  24. Compass
    Compass
    January 24, 2012 at 1:09 am | #

    BECAUSE WALKY GAVE IT ALL TO YOUUUUUUU.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      January 24, 2012 at 5:31 pm | #

      No, God delivered it when he dropped off rock ‘n’ roll.

  25. Chester
    Chester
    January 24, 2012 at 1:20 am | #

    I know, I know– we’re not supposed to reference the other comics, but does anyone else just get this awkward feeling seeing Joyce ask Dorothy about Walky?

  26. lord of dance
    lord of dance
    January 24, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

    silly dorothy. hes not in the ceiling, hes in the clouds

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      January 24, 2012 at 6:57 am | #

      There are very precise altitude values.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        January 24, 2012 at 10:53 am | #

        Not *real* clouds, silly. That would cause problems with things like airplanes running into him. And putting him even higher, in space, isn’t much better. (Momentarily ignoring the religions that really *do* explicitly put him in space if you research hard enough.)

        So yeah, god’s not in those clouds. He’s in the clouds you see in the Mario games. Yep, those ones. Specifically.

  27. Kelvin
    Kelvin
    January 24, 2012 at 1:40 am | #

    HEEEEEEEEEEEY! WASN’T THAT TOY A VILLAIN FROM ‘It’s Walky’ and ‘Joyce and walky’?

    • AliaPie
      AliaPie
      January 24, 2012 at 1:45 am | #

      Yup!

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      January 24, 2012 at 1:46 am | #

      “Joyce! Stop breaking the Fourth Wall!”

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        January 24, 2012 at 3:38 am | #

        “But that’s where God lives! How else am I supposed to sing to him?”

        • Kelvin
          Kelvin
          January 27, 2012 at 7:15 pm | #

          Oh god, that’s awesome~!

  28. AliaPie
    AliaPie
    January 24, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

    Oooh, snarky Dorothy. I like that it didn’t phase Joyce at all and she returned with another question.

    Also, the title loaded before the comic did so I read ‘piercing’ and thought it meant a body piercing and we were gonna find out Dorothy had a surprise belly button ring or nipple ring or something. Yeah, I don’t know. I need sleep.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 24, 2012 at 10:55 am | #

      That’s pretty low-level snarking. In my circles it would hardly even count.

      Joyce did shrug if off pretty well though.

    • huh
      huh
      January 24, 2012 at 11:20 am | #

      You thought we’d find out about a nipple ring?
      I know she’s technically undressing in front of her, but their relationship isn’t quite that intimate.

      Yet.

      • Michelle J Caboose
        Michelle J Caboose
        January 25, 2012 at 7:22 am | #

        Right. It’s only been a week since they met, and a couple of days since they started hanging out. They’re still only at the “touching through clothing stage” right now.

  29. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 24, 2012 at 2:28 am | #

    Because she likes the toy?

  30. RaijinK
    RaijinK
    January 24, 2012 at 2:33 am | #

    Dorothy/Walky JUST climbed to third place in the shipping poll. Coincidence?

  31. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 24, 2012 at 3:46 am | #

    The first time I’ve seen Dorothy without glasses and it is glorious.

  32. aaron_bourque
    aaron_bourque
    January 24, 2012 at 4:43 am | #

    He’s not in the ceiling, he’s in the clouds, duh.

  33. LiC
    LiC
    January 24, 2012 at 4:46 am | #

    awww… I’d forgotten about the toy. 🙂

  34. Jackson
    Jackson
    January 24, 2012 at 7:03 am | #

    “So, do I take damage, or…”

    “You are pierced!”

    • Crumplepunch
      Crumplepunch
      January 24, 2012 at 8:32 am | #

      Look at yourself.

      Look at what you have become.

      • Tucker
        Tucker
        January 24, 2012 at 2:28 pm | #

        What have you done?

        For some reason your comment sparked off a memory of something I had forgotten about.

        (with a link that works this time – I swear the ” will be the end of me)

      • Kaj
        Kaj
        January 24, 2012 at 2:29 pm | #

        1000X better with that gravatar

      • sagara s.
        sagara s.
        January 24, 2012 at 6:48 pm | #

        Is this a Penny Arcade reference?

        • Jackson
          Jackson
          January 24, 2012 at 11:29 pm | #

          Yer durn tootin’.

          Toot.

  35. Layman
    Layman
    January 24, 2012 at 8:51 am | #

    Panel three: Could Dorothy be Leslie’s daughter? Or are we not doing the shocking revelation stuff in this universe?

    • David
      David M Willis
      January 24, 2012 at 9:52 am | #

      Not unless Leslie had Dorothy when she was five!

      • david
        david
        January 24, 2012 at 10:29 am | #

        Shocking revelation stuff! GASP

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          January 24, 2012 at 12:47 pm | #

          The combination of names and avatars here is hilarious.

          • Tucker
            Tucker
            January 24, 2012 at 1:02 pm | #

            What a twist!

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        January 24, 2012 at 10:56 am | #

        I am arbitrarily deciding to believe this is true mainly because it’s stupid.

        Yay!

        • Michelle J Caboose
          Michelle J Caboose
          January 25, 2012 at 7:25 am | #

          The Roz grav makes your comment even better. ^_^

  36. Luke
    Luke
    January 24, 2012 at 9:38 am | #

    SKY, Dorothy. The correct insult is, “invisible man in the SKY”.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm | #

      That’s an insult? I thought it was simply a layman’s description of the physical/positional characteristics of average Christian deity. You know, what you have if you don’t get into the metaphysically confusing and/or nonsensical stuff.

  37. Rob-justrob
    Rob-justrob
    January 24, 2012 at 10:12 am | #

    Throwing that toy at someones head is bludgeoning not piercing, silly Dorothy.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      January 24, 2012 at 8:07 pm | #

      Seriously, you’ll never be able to play games with Joyce until you learn your damage types.

  38. Heavensrun
    Heavensrun
    January 24, 2012 at 12:49 pm | #

    Dorothy is clearly jealous. Of Walky.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      January 24, 2012 at 12:50 pm | #

      Joyce. Joyce is Jealous. Durr.

      • TheBenenator
        TheBenenator
        January 24, 2012 at 1:22 pm | #

        No, you got it right on the first try. ;~)

  39. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    January 24, 2012 at 1:12 pm | #

    pokerface.jpg

  40. Keulan
    Keulan
    January 24, 2012 at 4:18 pm | #

    Dorothy looks really weird without her glasses.

  41. SOfi
    SOfi
    January 24, 2012 at 6:33 pm | #

    I see the persepolis poster 😀

  42. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    January 24, 2012 at 8:14 pm | #

    “SHOT THROUGH THE HEAAAAAAART! AND YOU’RE TO BLAME! YOU GIVE LOOOOOOVVVVE A BAD NAME!”

  43. JonathanE
    JonathanE
    January 25, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

    Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but without glasses doesn’t Dorothy kinda look like Faz? Creepy abit……

  44. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    January 25, 2012 at 6:27 am | #

    y’know……….Dorothy is REALLY cute without her glasses on 🙂

    • Michelle J Caboose
      Michelle J Caboose
      January 25, 2012 at 7:31 am | #

      I don’t disagree with you, but as someone who is attracted to girls with glasses, I have to say that glasses naturally add +10 Charisma. And apparently, Dorothy has +5 Glasses Of Attractiveness.

      Last nerdy reference for today. I promise.

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